Three years ago today...

[Zenom199]

lol so your saying Sony buying the game was a good thing?

Sony had no intention of seeing this game grow and succeed. They sacked the live event team (destroying the game's most exciting feature for many players). They sacked the monolith techs that came over initially. They never put any money into advertising the game. Hell i am from Australia and it was never advertised or distributed here. I stumbled on it on the internet.

In the end they had a game with code they didnt understand and not enough staff to maintain it. So they proceeded to suck $15 a month from players until it become no longer viable.

If it wasnt for rarebit's attempts to keep live events going and releasing new content (old content that was just reskinned). I doubt the game would have lasted as long as it did under Sony.

We don't know what happened behind closed doors when Monolith was negiotating the sale of the game but if they picked a company that actually wanted to see the game succeed it may be still around today.